Info Day on the Calls for Proposals 2023
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Sequence of Presentations - DAY 1
Janusz Wojciechowski, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission
Presentation of the 2023 Annual Work Programme and Calls for proposals
Mikaël Meunier, Head of Unit (acting), DG AGRI F1- External communication and promotion policy
Bruno De Oliveira Alves, Team Leader, Promotion of agricultural products, DG AGRI F1- External communication and promotion policy
Policy session: Trade opportunities in potential growth markets
Catherine Combette, Head of Unit, DG AGRI G3- Asia and Australasia
Iciar Chavarri-Ureta, Deputy Head of Unit, DG TRADE D3 - Agriculture, Food and Sanitary and Phytosanitary matters
Presentation of the programme BORDEUS
Frédérique Sipos Amrouni, Deputy Director for Marketing, CIVB
Sequence of Presentations - DAY 2
How to address well the award criteria?
- Overview of award criteria and how to address them in the proposal, Aleksandra Mecilosek, Head of Unit, REA.B.4
- Preparing a coherent project strategy, Christos Vakoufaris, Agronomist, Ministry of Interior, Directorate of Agricultural and Veterinary Economy of Veria, Greece
- Influencing consumer behaviour – how to promote organic and sustainability in turbulent times? - Sylwia Żakowska-Biemans, Professor, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
- Presentation REA – Aleksandra Mecilosek
- Presentation Directorate of Agricultural and Veterinary Economy of Veria - Christos Vakoufaris
- Presentation Warsaw University of Life Sciences - Sylwia Żakowska-Biemans
Eligibility rules: how to avoid the most frequent reasons for rejection?
Anett Buzek, Head of Sector, REA.B.
- Applicant eligibility rules
- Rules on continuations
- Which (sustainability) labels can be promoted (national Quality schemes)
Project examples – presentation by beneficiaries of SIMPLE and MULTI programmes
- Hay Milk TSG 2021- Heidi Trettler, project manager, ARGE Heumilch, AT
- Nudging organic - Anton Järild, Communication Strategist, Organic Sweden
- Du Bio, Chef! - Laure Verdeau, Director, Agence BIO, FR
- EUSliceQuality - Viviana Romanazzi, Consorzio italiano tutela Mortadella Bologna, IT
- Presentation ARGE Heumilch - Heidi Trettler
- Presentation Organic Sweden – Anton Järild
- Presentation Agence Bio – Laure Verdeau
- Presentation Consorzio italiano tutela Mortadella Bologna – Viviana Romanazzi
Presentation of our event
In relation to the publication of the 2023 Calls for proposals for grants for information provision and promotion measures concerning agricultural products, DG Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) and the European Research Executive Agency (REA) organised the annual Info Day to take place on-site in Brussels and online.
This year the Info day took place over two days. The first day will was dedicated to policy aspects. Speakers from the European Commission discussed the priorities of the 2023 Annual Work Programme and trade opportunities in potential growth markets.
The second day had a focus on the development of successful campaigns. The participants had the opportunity to listen to presentations by EC officials, external experts and projects’ coordinators. The presentations of the day were highlighting several challenging aspects, such as addressing well the award criteria and sustainability in 2023 programme proposals. Presentations were focusing also on how to set a good campaign strategy and how to successfully develop communication campaigns on EU sustainable production and consumption. We looked into eligibility rules as well as discuss challenges and expectations, with examples and key learnings.
As part of this event, matchmaking sessions dedicated to interaction between potential project partners were organised on-site only with a view to submitting multi-beneficiary proposals.
